You can leverage ATG's commerce and self-services solutions across your enterprise regardless of your underlying application server. Since ATG products have been designed from the ground up for 100 percent J2EE 1.3 standards support, you can harness the power of multiple environments, even if they use fundamentally different technologies. Your organization can leverage the great features of our adaptive scenario, portal, and commerce applications whether you're running IBM WebSphere®, BEA WebLogic™, JBoss, ATG Dynamo Application Server (DAS), or any combination of the four.

ATG currently offers our customers the convenience of buying ATG DAS or IBM WebSphere® from ATG as part of the value-added solutions we provide.

View a list of supported configurations of DAS, JBoss, BEA WebLogic, and IBM WebSphere.

BENEFITS OF ATG MULTIPLE APPLICATION SERVER SUPPORT

The flexibility to deploy ATG applications on your existing application server, or on several different types of application servers across your enterprise, enables you to:

• Avoid vendor lock-in and maximize your ability to deploy new applications wherever they are needed on a wide range of your technology infrastructures
• Lower your cost of ownership by leveraging your existing IT investments
• Deploy new e-business applications on top of your existing application server platforms, without having to invest more in your infrastructure
• Maximize the value of online relationships by providing a single view of the enterprise and a unified, highly personalized user experience
• Reduce your costs of building and maintaining enterprise applications by reusing the same applications for multiple projects

WEBSPHERE APPLICATION SERVER

IBM WebSphere Application Server enables customers to expand their business opportunities and productivity by providing a world class infrastructure.

IBM WebSphere Application Server is a high-performance and extremely scalable transaction engine for dynamic e-business applications. The Open Services Infrastructure allows companies to deploy a core operating environment that works as a reliable foundation for handling high-volume secure transactions and Web services. WebSphere continues the evolution to a single Web services-enabled, J2EE application server and development environment that addresses the essential elements needed for an on-demand operating environment.

ATG also offers the Eclipse Integration Plug-in so you can quickly create ATG modules and skeleton J2EE applications using a n Eclipse-based Integrated Development Environment (IDE). Eclipse is quickly becoming the de facto cross-platform IDE standard. It offers a familiar and intuitive graphical project workspace and capitalizes on the widespread knowledge of the Java programming language. The ATG Eclipse Integration Plug-in helps developers use standards-based development tools and a flexible wizard for integrating functionality into both the WebSphere Studio Application Developer (WSAD) and Dynamo Application Framework (DAF) environments.

ATG Dynamo Application Server

DAS is a high-performance platform for developing, hosting, and administering online commerce and self-service applications. DAS is designed specifically for today's high-volume Web personalization and commerce applications. In fact, it powers some of the most sophisticated and demanding sites on the Internet.

Through its 100-percent certified support of J2EE 1.3 specifications, DAS provides a solution for transactions, naming, security, database access, persistence, messaging, e-mail, and HTTP server interactions. It also offers robust functionality, such as internal resource management, load balancing, server clustering, session management, fault tolerance, database and data mapping, fast dynamic page generation, and business logic execution, so the enterprise can assure optimal performance of J2EE and Java applications.